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Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship Announces First Cohort
Treu-Mart Fund Awards Mandel Center Two Year Grant
The Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship Program is a nine-month experience for youth-serving professionals that both teaches and embodies the resiliency model of youth development - an asset-based paradigm for working with middle-school-aged youth. This unique program is a cooperative venture of the Treu-Mart Fund (a supporting organization of the Cleveland Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland) and the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Members of the first cohort for the Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship Program were announced in March and include:
Megan Billow, West Side Ecumenical Ministry
Lisa Bugenske, Shaker Heights Youth Center
Marcie Catron, YWCA
Anne Marie Grassi, Open Doors
Kahari Hicks, Open Doors
Tracee Ingram, YWCA
Angela Isom, Henry Johnson Center Inc.
Julie Jackson, Applewood
A.J. Jennings, Open Doors
Dorcus Johnson, Glenville Recreation Center, City of Cleveland
TreVina Johnson, YMCA
Joanne Murphy, YMCA
Bob Navis, Near West Theatre
LaTanya Nolcox, Center for Families and Children, Rap Art
Kate Renaud, City Year
Rose Young, Goodrich-Gannett Neighborhood Center
This first cohort met for the first time on April 18th to begin the instructional portion of the fellowship. This group includes 16 members representing 12 agencies across the Cleveland area.
"We have an incredibly enthusiastic and dedicated group of youth professionals in our first cohort," Pat Heilbron, Treu-Mart Program Director, said. "The group works well together and fellows are beginning to collaborate outside of the fellowship program. These professionals are very skilled in seeing the promise and strengths of our youth."
Instructors for the workshops include: Penny Senyak from OnTasc, Inc. in Youngstown; Zoe Breen Wood from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case; Michael Walker from Partnership for a Safer Cleveland; Joanne Lewis from Global Issues Resource Center at Cleveland Community College; and Phyllis DeMark who is a consultant. Instruction for the workshops focus on resilience and youth development and will be followed up by six months of coaching and peer-to-peer learning sessions.
The Treu-Mart Fund recently awarded the Mandel Center a generous two year grant, which will be used to support the continuation of the Treu-Mart Youth Development Fellowship Program.
